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RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: GARY VANSICKLE <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:45:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote:
> > Noo... Please, remove all of these safety checks.
> > There must be some kind of user sanity presupposition. Or else the tools
> > soon will be crippled to a state where they are unusable for normal work.
>
> FWIW I'm with Hannu. Should rm ask you, "Do you *really* want to delete
> this file?", or make a backup of every file you delete (ala the Recycle
> Bin)? It should according to the thinking in this thread.
That's what the "-i" flag is for. :-) But guess what? It's not the
default!
IOW, I agree here. The safety checks don't work (as I showed in
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00116.html>), and they prevent a
legitimate use of the program. If you really want to be safe, run "file"
before running "d2u/u2d". Or, leave the safety checks in, but only if a
"--safe" (or whatever the appropriate name is) flag is given.
Igor
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